#i am popular follower

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Sometimes a day makes you want a Starscream to bite and squeeze

[shalom-iamcominghome]

"We need more diverse queer representation!"

You cannot even handle queer jews.

[hoshizoralone]

hi fellow Chinese vocalsynth fan!!! What is your favorite Chinese synth song?

say no more heres some of my vsinger specific bangers

Tianyi: Dialog of Light and Shadow, Echoes of the Tide, Starlight, Reminiscence of the Red Lotus, Little Yearning, Time to Shine, Butterfly

Yanhe: I am Yanhe, Side by Side, 万言歌, Lady Chasing Guide, Amok, 星辰色

Ling: Unknown Journey FM, Run!, 返祖���应-OOTEM-, 从前有个衔玉教, 月巷,

Longya: Heretic, Lost Paradise, Hidden Voice of Hero in Ink, Drunken Talk of Demons on a Night in Dongyang, King of Comedy

Qingxian: 舞不醉心, 祈念九歌, Unconventional Love Story, Gravity-less Maiden, 情教

Moke: Follow me sorry i actually know zero original moke songs i dont listen to his stuff much

for xingchen i like Deities of Cathaysia, Doll's Dream, With Three Thousand Years... also this bilibili dancing festival remix song with her, ling, yanhe, tianyi, feng yi, solaria of all girlies???!?

[pissed-whizard]

have friends that gas up your music taste and how your balls taste

[trisarahtops-sketches]

I suddenly had the urge to turn myself into a stuffed animal...a plushsona if you will... 🦇⭐🧸💙

Design isn't quite solidified yet but I think she's coming out cute...

[morangoowada]

Miku Northeast Brazil version 🇧🇷🌵

[mrmeepsmadmind]

bee's protective nature over anyone persists even as a ghost & i think he sometimes forgets or doesn't care that only star can see him (sadly no touch tho) & will start shouting & angrily try standing between people who are mad at starscream even tho he can't be seen, he just wants to try & help anyways bcs STOP IT >:(!! BE NICE !!!! cried the ghost no one can hear or see except for the poor guy getting yelled at & trying to overhear the conversation over bee's frantic rebuttals while trying to discreetly let bee know it's ok while ALSO trying not to look Insane .

continued attempt at a 4am drawn doodle comic below

i might draw detailed later but yeah i just wanted to give yall this headcanon bcs i love starbee so much... the nagging wives finally finding their true loves... another nagging wife.

' you .. do know only i can hear and see you, unfortunately, right? or are you starting to go loopy, because i don't need another insane figure haunting me. I have enough already, as you can try and fail to imagine, little bee . '

' trust me, im Well aware .. of everything you just said . .. but i just. i couldn't just Stand there and do Nothing while someone talked to you like You were Nothing . that's not the autobot way. that's not- my way . '

' . . . '

[beanghostprincess]

Barto breaking down thinking he's going to die and the one thing he regrets is not being able to see Luffy become pirate king, and when it turns out he can live despite a mistake committed by his undying loyalty (that Shanks forgives because, what the hell, it isn't even that serious and scaring him is good enough as a warning), Yasopp goes and literally attacks his ship with the probability of killing them all...... Yasopp when I fucking catch you--

[realgoogleslides]

Love how everyone was so worried and worked up over KOSA but then when australia says "face id is required to prove your over 16 to use social media" noone even hears about it

[sparkoflena]

Some book reccomendations for absolutely no reason today:

[Standalone Dystopian & Fantasy]

- The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins (prequel to the Hunger Games but the Hunger Games also applies here)

- Babel by RF Kuang

- 1984 by George Orwell (and everything else written by this author)

- The Spear Cut Through Water by Simon Jimenez

- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

- She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

- Unbecoming by Seema Yasmin

- The Women by Kristin Hannah

[Fantasy & Dystopian Series]

- The Blood Trials by NE Davenport (a duology)

- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (a series)

- The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (a trilogy)

- The Bone Season by Sammantha Shannon (a series)

- A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair (a series)

- Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent (a trilogy)

- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (a series)

- The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi (a trilogy)

[Nonfiction]

- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

- Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga

- The Color of the Law by Richard Rothstein

- The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, & Gail Hudson

- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis

- This Book Will Save The Planet by Dany Sigwalt (and the rest of the series by Quarto Publishing)

[doyoulikethis-vocaloid-song]

I just wanted to say that the obsession with Butcher Vanity kind of hurts my heart. I mean, FLAVOR FOLEY has four other amazing songs, one of which was just released, and I wish they were more popular. (I'm a big fan of #2, #4 and the latest, myself. I think #3 kinda missed tbh)

[keeping them unnamed in case they've been submitted/people are considering submitting them. I don't want to spoil anything for people who haven't heard them]

I think it's mostly just because it was the very first? It was the debut song of 3 already well-known creators in the vocalsynth sphere and introduced a lot of people to Yi Xi for the very first time and at the time of it's release there wasn't anything else from FLAVOR FOLEY to listen to, lol. That's not even getting into the unique sound it has compared to specifically song #2, which I think might've halted the "hype train" for a brief moment.

I can understand being annoyed if you didn't like the song and then having it show up in every corner but I wouldn't say that the obsession is a bad thing. Besides, maybe it's just my bias lol, but the latest song has been doing extremely well from what I've seen! I think they just had a super bombastic opening is all. It's only up from here imo!

[littlemut]

im into shibari and ropeplay because i wasn’t swaddled enough as a baby

[thelaurenshippen]

open ai made a little post about how they chose their chatbot voices and two things stood out to me:

a) I am genuinely pleased and surprised that the voices come from specific real people that they hired and paid, rather than being built off of all of the data open ai has scraped. the voice for siri did one job for one company 20 years ago and now she is literally everywhere without ever being compensated by apple or even acknowledged as the voice. there's simply no way she was paid enough in that original job. whereas, open ai says "each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products." this could mean literally anything (what market rate are we going above? does continue mean they get residuals or get paid for doing more sessions?) but, christ, at least the actors are doing it with full knowledge of what their voices are being used for and can decide for themselves if the compensation is enough

b) the post talks about working with "award-winning casting directors" to get the voices. first of all, yay for paying casting directors! we love to see it. but they also say the CDs received over 400 submissions in a week and they state that like a big number and it's just...not at all. and look, without knowing the intricacies of the casting process, it's hard to know what approach the CDs took - it's very possible they were selective from the jump and 400 is a lot from the pool they were tapping. 400 would be a lot if you were going to the agencies directly and asking for names, but there's just no way in hell open ai went after big stars for this. so it would've been a pool of unknowns. in which case, 400 is laughably small. even if you're not using the big casting sites like actorsaccess, I've worked on projects with CDs and their own internal systems where we've gotten over 100 submissions for a single role. I've posted roles on casting sites and received literally thousands of submissions in just a few days

look, I have a very limited perspective on this - I am not a casting director (imo, one of the most important and undervalued jobs in hollywood) and I, in fact, hate the process of casting with a passion. but 400 just seemed like such a tiny pool to pull from and, idk, it heartens me! it's heartening to think that there's very little interest from actors and agents to be doing this kind of stuff. and absolutely no shade to the actors who did--I want actors to get their bag however they want as long as it's, like, safe sane and consensual, you know? but there's something encouraging about thinking that open ai hired some big casting agency to get their foot into the voice acting door and people didn't come running

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Delightful Distraction

A genderswapped FluffyNight drabble to celebrate reaching 300 followers! This was briefly looked over & written in two sittings! Happy reading!

Ccino hums quietly to the music that's playing in the otherwise quiet café & picks up the dirty dishes of the table that had just left, leaving the building free of customers for the time being.

Carrying the plates carefully with both hands, she walks into the back where the kitchen is & deposits the dirty dishes into the sink, already filled with plates from earlier in the day.

Ccino debates with herself for a moment before grabbing a pair of dish washing gloves from nearby & slipping them on. She might as well take advantage of the lack of customers & get a head start on washing up.

Scrubbing away at a dirty cup, Ccino's unaware of a presence approaching her from behind until there are suddenly arms wrapped around her waist, causing her to jump & tighten her grip on the mug in her hand in surprise.

Looking over her shoulder, Ccino glares at the grinning face behind her, huffing in annoyance. "Was that really necessary?" Nightmare lets out a quiet chuckle as she tightens her hold around Ccino, resting her head on the other's shoulder.

"No, but it was funny." She mumbles softly in response to the question, pressing a soft kiss against Ccino's neck in apology. "Will you ever find it in yourself to forgive me?"

Ccino rolls her eyelights & sighs with a shake of her skull, unable to keep the smile off of her face as she turns back to face the sink. "I don't know, what will you do to make it up to me?"

Nightmare hums as she thinks, grin softening into a smile as she tries to come up with a satisfying reply. "I could always make dinner for us tonight?"

Ccino stands straight & pulls away from Nightmare's hold slightly to look at her, a look of panic on her face as she frantically tries to backtrack. "N-No, it's fine! No further apology needed, I'm good!"

Nightmare huffs with a pout, reluctantly pulling away & taking a step back from the other. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Ccino pauses to take off the gloves she's wearing before turning to face Nightmare fully. "Honey, you know I love you," she takes the other's hands into hers, squeezing them softly as she meets Nightmare's gaze & continues speaking, "but your cooking could use some work."

Nightmare frowns as if she's upset, but shrugs after a moment as a smile forms on her face again. "Yeah, that's fair." She squeezes Ccino's hands in return, leaning in & pressing a chaste kiss against the other's teeth.

Ccino hums as she goes to kiss Nightmare again, unsatisfied with how short the last one was, only to jump at the sound of the bell hanging in front of the door ringing & signaling the presence of a customer.

She pulls away in a panic, adjusting her apron with a light blush on her face as she walks away from Nightmare & back out to the actual café area, calling out to the customer. "Just a moment!"

Nightmare watches as Ccino walks away with a pout, tentacles drooping in disappointment as she hears her begin to take the customer's order. She had hoped to have Ccino's attention for longer, but that clearly wasn't going to happen.

Nightmare looks over at the dirty dishes that she had distracted Ccino from, sighing & grabbing the gloves that the other had been using. She may as well help her darling out a little since she had distracted her.

[sweet-potato-42]

From a meta perspective bolas team did a perfect job in becoming the most popular team and marketing (whether intentionally or not). like its quite impressive to see:

they set themselves up as underdogs day 1

they had a fun insane behavior thing that people were attached to

they had awesome imagery with the gas masks and being red

they had a group of ccs who were very close to each other beforehand and had great dynamics and were great at rp

They streamed all together at the same time

I have to say they did a great job at making themselves seem like the better team and painted blue as the enemy (like its fair of them to have done but anyone can say some of their comments were kinda biased)

the BOLAS chants are peak way to rally people together

Had the advantage of bigger ccs with intesne fanbases

the rivalry with bbh was also fun to see

they were sometimes the targets and victims and losing (highlight sometimes, they were not weak, they won a lot) and did a great job and focusing on that and using it as fuel

In the end they were great at what they did, too good at it, which caused the fanbase to be super biased towards them and some elements of it was what caused so much drama.

New ccs: please be worse at marketing for our sanity

[magentagalaxies]

threw together a new buddy cole doc poster design on canva tonight bc i don't really want to use the old poster for our next crowdfunding campaign and anyway do you like it?? genuinely give me any feedback you have bc i do not know graphic design i just have images and put text on em